Andy Staples on Jim Delany: “In a declaration filed last week in federal court in support of the NCAA’s motion against class certification, Delany threatened that any outcome that results in athletes getting a piece of the schools’ television revenue could force the schools of the Big Ten to de-emphasize athletics as the Ivy League’s schools did decades ago.”

Jim Delany to Andy Staples: “It’s not that we want to go Division III or go to need-based aid,” Delany said. “It’s simply that in the plaintiff’s hypothetical — and if a court decided that Title IX is out and players must be paid — I don’t think we’d participate in that. I think we’d choose another option. … If that’s the law of the land, if you have to do that, I don’t think we would.”

Internet’s reaction: Over there to your right.

Campus Union Feelings Collage on the subject: After the jump.

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Your FBS football options this Friday night consist entirely of 4-5 Pitt versus 3-6 UConn. We have some feelings to work out.

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The Panthers and Huskies kick off at 8 p.m. ET. The game will be televised on ESPN2 and streamed on WatchESPN.

• What information do I, the discerning consumer, require in order to consume this game? The Huskies and Orange kick off at 8 p.m. ET in the Carrier Dome. The game will be televised on ESPN and streamed on WatchESPN.

• Why should I watch a 2-4 team with a 3-4 team play football on a Friday night? Neither one of these squads has all that lofty a chance of getting past Rutgers, Louisville or Cincinnati for the league title, so we’re not really sure you should. We always want to err on the side of “more football” in life, but we’re not all that sure this qualifies as “football.” To work through our complicated feelings on this issue, and to help you work through them too, we have constructed the following feelings collage.

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When words just won’t satisfy the torrent of emotion.

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